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truly stated, that these learned bodies assumed and exercised this power, and, that when used, it was practically great; but we mention these circumstances to shew what weight such writers as Raynaud, Alphonsus de Castro, and Cardinal Caietan, allowed to the opinion of an University in such cases.

(To be continued.)

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

1. Letters to W. Wilberforce, Esq. to which is added an Answer to Melancthon; first series, 1822, second series, 1823. 8vo. London. Eedes.

Very excellent letters; full of interesting and important information; and which may not be unseasonable at the present juncture of political affairs.

2. The Poor Man's Preservative against Popery; addressed to the lower Classes of Great Britain and Ireland. By the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, formerly Chaplain to the King of Spain, in the Royal Chapel of Seville: now a Clergyman of the Church of England. 4th edit. London. Rivington. Is. or 10s. 6d. a dozen.

An excellent little work, which it may not be too late to recommend to some of our readers. It is much to be wished that tracts of this description,---cheap and popular,---were more generally circu. lated, especially in Roman Catholic dis tricts. This pamphlet well deserves its title; and being published, as the author informs us, without profit to himself, "in order that it may be sold at the lowest possible price..we hope it may obtain an extensive circulation among the poor.

3. The Jesuits' Memorial for the intended Reformation (i. e. destruction of the Church of England) under their first Popish Prince; extracted from the copy that was presented to the late King James the 11. 8vo. London. 1825.

These extracts from the Jesuits' Memorial, (which is very scarce, and of which there is a copy in the British Museum) have been transferred by the editor to the Protestant Union, by whom they are now published, and sold by J. Eedes, Hatchards, Rivingtons, Cadell, and Relfe.

4. A DIGEST of the Evidence taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to enquire into the state of Ireland; 1824-5, with notes historical and explanatory, and index, by Rev. W. Phelan, B. D. and Rev. M. O'Sullivan, A. M. 8vo. London. 1826.

"A work which every man desirous of forming an impartial and conscientious opinion upon the subject of Catholicism, as connected with England and Ireland, should make familiar to his mind." p. 20 of the Rev. Blanco White's letter to C. Butler, Esq.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
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BLOMFIELD C. J. Right Rev. D. D. A Letter to C. Butler, Esq., in vindication of English Protestants, from his attack upon their sincerity in the "Book of the Roman Catholic Church ;" with a Postscript in reply to Mr. Butler's letter to the Author. 8vo. 1s. Mawman.

statuit Alphonsus de Castro lib. 1. contra hæres. c. 3. numerus enim auctior similium personarum, nihil plus intensive confert quam si unica esset persona. Unde Caietan Opusc. de concept. B. Virginis Academiarum decisiones et determinationes nauci facit.... asinus sæpe Æsopicus quamvis asinus, leonis pelle indutus prodit, atque adeo si dare. tur cœtus talium non esset cœtus leonum, nisi externa specie." Partit. III. Erot. ii. 468, 471.

BUTLER C. Esq. Answer to the Bishop of Chester. Third Edition, 8vo. 1s. 6d. Murray. CANNING G. Right Hon. Corrected Report of his Speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday Feb. 15, 1825, on the motion for leave to bring in a Bill for the Suppression of Unlawful Associations in Ireland. 8vo. Murray. CLEMENTSON W. K., M. A. The Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp, &c.; a new Translation, with an Appendix, in which Cobbett's History of the Reformation is refuted. 5s.

COOMBES Rev. W. H., D. D. The Essence of Religious Controversy; containing a Series of Observations on a Protestant Catechism, in a letter to a Noble Lord. 8vo. 12s. Longman.

CROSS JOHN, Serjeant-at-Law. The Papal Supremacy, with remarks on the Bill for restoring the intercourse between the See of Rome and the United Kingdom, passed by the Commons, and rejected by the Lords, in the year 1825. A new Edition, revised. 8vo. 3s. Murray. DIXON Rev. T. W., formerly a Romish Priest, educated in the College of Maynooth, now a Clergyman of the Church of England. Popish Misrepresentations, in a Series of Letters. 2nd Edition. 5s. GODKIN JAMES. Motives for leaving the Romish Church, in Ten Letters to Mr. Furlong, &c. 1s. 6d.

HAWTREY Rev. C. S., M. A. The Mystery of Iniquity; or, a Warning to Protestants; founded on the Analogy between the Corruptions of Popery and the Corruptions of the Human Heart: a Sermon preached on Sunday, Nov. 5, 1826. 8vo. 1s.

HAMILTONS Rev. GEO. Two Letters to the titular Archbishop of Dublin. 2s. Tims.

HORTON R. Wilmot, Esq. M. P. the Catholic Question. 8vo.

A letter to the Duke of Norfolk on 3s. Murray.

A Letter to the Electors of Newcastle-under-Line. 8vo. 2s. Murray. JACOB EDWIN, M. A. Truth maintained and Charity promoted: a Clergyman's Address to English Protestants, on their Duties towards their Fellow-Countrymen of the Church of Rome. 2s. Rivingtons.

KAYE Right Rev. J., D. D. An Ecclesiastical History of the second and third centuries, illustrated from the writings of Tertullian. LATIMER Bishop. Sermons; a new Edition, carefully corrected, with illustrative notes, an original Memoir of the author, and an account of the manner of preaching common in his time. 2 vols. 8vo. 24s. Duncan.

LLOYD REV. RICHARD, A. M., Rector of St. Dunstan's in the West. An Appeal to the Common Sense of England, relative to the Catholic Claims. 8vo. 2s. Seeley.

MC. HALE Right Rev. J., D. D., Bishop of Moronia. Letter to Lord Farnham.

Second Letter to Lord Farnham.

MACKIE Rev. CHARLES, M. A. The spirit and constitution of the Church in their relation to the general welfare of the State. 8vo. 8s. 6d. Murray.

MATURIN Rev. C. R. Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, preached in St. Peter's Church, Dublin. 2nd Edition. 12mo. 3s. boards.

MILLER GEORGE, D. D., M. R. J. A. & M. R. S. L. The policy of the Roman Catholic Question discussed, in a letter to the Rt. Hon. N. C. Plunkett. 2nd Edition. 2s. 6d. Rivingtons.

An Historical View of the Plea of Tradition, as maintained by the Church of Rome. Svo.

OTWAY Rev. C. Letter to J. K. L. on his Letter to Lord Farnham. 3d.
Tims.
PHELAN Rev. Wм., B. D., and Rev. MORTIMER O'SULLIVAN, A. M..
A Digest of the evidence taken before select committees of the two
Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the state of Ireland,
in 1824, 1825, with notes historical and explanatory, and a copious
Index. 2 vols. 8vo. 18s. Cadell.
PHILPOTTS Rev. H., D. D. Letter to the Right Hon. Geo. Canning on
Bill of 1825, for removing the disqualifications of his Majesty's
Roman Catholic subjects, and on his Speech in support of it. 8vo.
3s. 6d.

Second Letter to Right Hon. Geo. Canning. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Pozzo Count Ferdinand dal. Catholicism in Austria, or an Epitome of the Austrian Ecclesiastical Law, with a Dissertation upon the rights and duties of the English Government, with respect to the Catholics in Ireland. 8vo. Murray.

STEWART Rev. J. H., M. A., and Rev. G. W. PHILIPS, M. A. "The Church of Rome the Corruption of the Catholic Faith." "God's call to his People to come out of her." Two Sermons preached on Trinity Sunday, 1827, at Percy Chapel, for "the British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation." Is.

each. Hatchard.

SOAMES HENRY, M. A., Rector of Shelley, Essex. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, during the Reign of Edward the Sixth. In one large vol. 8vo. Price 18s.

The two former volumes comprise the Reign of Henry VIII. Price £1. 10s. in boards.

Another volume, which may be expected before the conclusion of the present year, and which will carry the work down to the re-establishment of the Protestant Church under Queen Elizabeth, will complete the Author's design.

TEMPLE HENRY WILLIAM, Esq. Catholic principles and feelings unchanged from the 14th century to the present time. 8vo. 2s. Hatchard.

THORNTON JAMES. Letters on the Moral and Religious state of South America; written during a Residence of nearly seven years in Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, and Colombia. 12mo. 5s. Nisbet.

VAN ESS LEANDER, D. D. Two Letters to the Rev. C. Gorham, B. D., on some points of his "Statement on the Apochryphal Books," and on some of the alleged doctrines of the Church of Rome, with a reply by Mr. Gorham. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Seeley.

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Church of England. With what degree of justice, the author leaves it to the reader to determine.".

We are glad that Mr. Sharples has given this challenge, and for the present, shall only say, that we also are quite willing to refer it to the reader to determine between Mr. S. and "The Lancashire Curate." Mr. S., however, will perceive that there remains a second letter to be refuted.

Our readers are aware that the discussion in Dublin, between the Rev. Messrs. Pope and Maguire, has been succeeded by a similar discussion in London, between the Rev. J. Burnet and Mr. O'Leary, both of the City of Cork; by a third at Balleymena, between the Rev. R. Stewart and the Rev. B. Auley; by a fourth at Birmingham, between the Rev. T. Burnet and the Rev. T. M. M'Donnall: and we observe that the Rev. Mr. Maguire, P. P. of Innismagrath, who rendered himself so notorious by the first discussion, has been invited to another, by a Clergyman of the Established Church, in the neighbourhood of Sligo. It is proposed to take place in Sligo. An authentic report of the discussion in Dublin has made its appearance: and similar reports of those in London and Birmingham. We regret, however, to notice that the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell, the Roman Ca

tholic Priest of Birmingham, refused to authenticate the report of his discussion with Mr. Burnet, though a special Reporter of high character had been engaged by the committee, and every other arrangement made for procuring a correct publication. The report, therefore, appears authenticated by Mr. Burnet alone, with an expla natory statement which we think by no means favourable to his oppo nent. We hope, hereafter, to give a more ample notice of these important Discussions, and of others conducted through the medium of the press. Those at Worcester and Gloucester appear to have excited considerable attention. A correspondent instructs us to state, with reference to the Worcester controversy, "that W. L. is said to be a retired wheelwright, who has lately acquired some property, but having been opposed at a parish meeting in Bromesgrove, he joined the Romanists. H. B. is still "vinored," but is said to be a literary layman, living in a retired way, near Worcester."

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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

HOPEFUL SYMPTONS IN TURKEY, AND REMARKABLE EXCITEMENT AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

The Rev. John Hartley, one of the representatives of the Church Missionary Society in the Mediterranean, has made the following statement with reference to the members of the Romish Communion in Turkey generally, but more particularly in Constantinople.

"I am happy," he says, "to inform you, that the door is opening

for us among Roman Catholics also, and that our books are received by many of them with eagerness. It is also worthy of remark, that those very books which are in most direct opposition to their Church, are received with the greatest pleasure; such, for example, as "Popery, a Novelty;" Tillotson against Transubstantiation; Tillotson on the necessity of Reading the Scriptures; "Andrew Dunn," &c. I ardently long for full and separate

works against each of the principal tenets of Popery: these books not only open men's understandings on their own peculiar subject, but they induce them to study books more readily on the experimental doctrines of Christianity.

He adds, in a letter to Mr. Jowett, at Malta, "The Italian books against Popery are getting on nobly: notwithstanding the threats and sermons which are pronounced against them, a great number has been circulated with much advantage; and I believe that they are now extensively read. I much regret that we have not a greater number of powerful works of the same description. Do all in your power to expedite the Italian Translation of the History of the Reformation."

Though not immediately connected with the subject of Popery, we cannot refrain from adding to the above notice, another from a brother missionary in the East, the Rev. Mr. King,-who has recently arrived in London, from Syria. It is ultimately connected with the decline of superstition and the progress of truth, and may therefore properly appear in this department of our work. Mr. King reports that a General Council of all the Bishops, Priests, and Monks of the Greek and Armenian Churches, was lately held at Constantinople; when a copy of a letter was read, addressed by Mr. King to different individuals in various parts of Syria on his leaving that country. The Council examined minutely the citations from Scripture to which he appealed, and were thereby influenced to confess, how much the word of God was neglected, and how contrary many of their practices were to that sacred volume; and it ended by a public reprobation of the celibacy of their clergy, their pilgrimages, and other superstitions; and it is more than probable that the monkish orders will be altogether abolished among

them.

The following additional parti

culars will, we doubt not, be interesting to our readers. They are communicated by the Rev. Mr. Goodell, the colleague of Mr. King. He thus writes:"Mr. King's Farewell Letter, which (with considerable additions by myself, having special reference to the Armenians) we had translated into Turkish, found its way to Constantinople in Signior Wortabet's hand-writing, and produced an amazing excitement among the one hundred thousand Armenians of that capital. A council was immediately held, consisting of all the Armenian Monks, and Priests, and Bishops, and Patriarchs, of whom several happened at that time to be at Constantinople; and of all the principal Armenians of the Laity, together with two of the Greek Patriarchs, viz. the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Patriarch of Jerusalem."

"Mr. King's Letter, with the Scripture proofs, which I had furnished abundantly in the margin, was then read; with a suitable pause after each section; and the question was solemnly asked"Are these things so? And is the Letter itself agreeable to the Word of God?"

The Bible-yes, the holy, blessed, long-neglected Bible was produced, and examined; and, when they could not make it speak a different language from the Letter, they called for the Original, in order to be sure that their translation was a faithful one. In the end, they were forced to acknowledge, that the Letter was agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.

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The Monks, and Priests, and Bishops, then said to the Patriarchs Three of your principal men have, agreeably to this Letter and the Bible, married wives, and are now overturning the whole system of our Church; if they are doing right, we will all go and do likewise: but, if they are not doing right, we insist upon your putting an immediate stop to their proceedings, and bringing them to justice."

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